Staff Cloud Engineer

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Toronto is seeking a skilled Cloud Engineer to design, develop, and maintain cloud-native application delivery solutions. This role involves collaborating with engineering teams, managing CI/CD processes, and optimizing cloud applications. Candidates should be proficient in Go programming, Kubernetes, and containerization technologies. The position offers competitive compensation and a dynamic work environment that encourages professional growth.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Flexible work/life balance options

World-class training program in financial services

Qualifications

• Experience developing software, ideally in Go.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps best practices.
• Effective communication skills and a learning attitude.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available, scalable systems on cloud platforms.
• Manage CI/CD for platform components and cloud applications.
• Support application teams in migrating applications to the cloud.

Skills

Go Programming Language

Docker

Kubernetes

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Effective communication

Agile Scrum Development

Tools

Azure

AWS

Red Hat OpenShift

Job description

What is the Opportunity?

Excited about cloud technologies? Looking to make a difference helping one of the biggest enterprises in Canada build and scale hybrid cloud? We need your help!

At RBC, we build products on top of our cloud platforms to enable application teams to leverage platform capabilities and increase developer productivity. In this role, you will design and build scalable and resilient delivery and deployment systems on various cloud platforms that will enhance developer experience from onboarding to deployment to production.

What will you do?

• Design, develop, configure and maintain cloud-native application delivery solutions to address business requirements
• Evaluate and troubleshoot system operations, providing solutions to optimize complex systems
• Collaborate with a team of fellow engineers in building large scale solutions across public and private clouds
• Create technical and product documentation for your solutions and the platform
• Continuously learn new technical skills and practice by applying them in your day-to-day work
• Support high profile customers to migrate their applications to RBC’s Kubernetes platforms

Primary responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available, scalable, and resilient systems and components for a cloud native technology stack
• Develops detailed plans and accurate estimates for the design, build, implementation and stabilization of features and systems
• Manages all aspects of testing and verification ensuring all tasks are completed

Actively participates in defining, planning and executing team activities

• Recommends strategies to enhance developer experience, platform engineering and operations, and team planning activities
• Collaborates with teammates and peers to plan, build and maintain high quality technical solutions

Responsible for configuration, maintenance, release and troubleshooting Kubernetes workload delivery technology and tools.

• Manages CI/CD for platform components and continuous delivery system for applications
• Ensures cloud system applications meet high quality standards
• Manages day-to-day administration activities, including but not limited to performance tuning/scaling

Support and provide guidance to high profile application teams to migrate applications to the cloud in face-paced environment.

• Provides guidance on transforming into cloud native application using platform tools.

Must-have

• Experience developing software, with proficiency in high level programming languages, ideally Go
• Experience with RESTful APIs
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps best practices
• Effective communication skills and a learning attitude

Nice-to-have

• Experience with industry standard CI/CD tooling and cloud native technologies
• Experience creating and manipulating YAML files
• Experience working with Azure, AWS cloud and/or Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
• Experience working in an Agile development environment

What’s in it for you?

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Opportunities to building close relationships with clients

Job Skills

Agile Scrum Development, Cloud Computing Architecture, Cloud Platform, Cloud Technology, Computer Programming, Computer Software, Containerization, Continuous Delivery, Design, DevOps, Go Programming Language, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Kubernetes, Systems Software, Teamwork

Additional Job Details

Address: 330 FRONT ST W:TORONTO

City: Toronto

Country: Canada

Work hours/week: 37.5

Employment Type: Full time

Platform: TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type: Regular

Pay Type: Salaried

Posted Date: 2025-07-22

Application Deadline: 2026-01-12

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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